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  1. The Blue Lotus, a "Fight and be Right" short story

    Author's note: This is a short, three part standalone story set in the world of "Fight and Be Right". If you've read the TL, great! If not, you don't really need to in order to understand what's going on; just treat it as an unspecified alternative timeline. Part two will follow in a few days...

  2. Alternative Prime Ministers #5, "Flesh of my Flesh""

    ...me, These windy spaces/Are surely my own. And those who here toil/In the sweat of their faces Are flesh of my flesh/And bone of my bone." **** Flashbulbs popped and cameras whirred as Mick stood at the threshold of 10 Downing St. “Are you going to give the Prime Minister a Glasgow...

  3. Alternative Prime Ministers #4, "Better One King""

    ...British Prime Ministers. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 is here and Part 3 is here. “You had better have one King than five hundred” **** “Just a bit of fun! Just a bit of fun!” The TV burbled away to itself in the corner of the living room as the candidate paced back and...

  4. Alternative Prime Ministers #3, "An English Heaven"

    ...1 can be found here, Part 2 is here. “And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.” **** With a crunch of gravel, the Vanguard Staff Car rolled to a halt. Inside, the Air Minister grimaced at the sudden movement, rummaged in...

  5. "The Nation of the Holocaust" (or: WI Gabrielle D'Annunzio marches on Rome)

    ...and taking a first step along the road to reclaim Venice's old possessions in the Aegean. The implications of this are interesting; perhaps a *Chanak Crisis comes several years early? There's a final wrinkle, and that's Russia. Perhaps counter-intuitively, D'Annunzio tried very hard to...

  6. Alternative Prime Ministers #2: "Share or Shaft"

    ...the last one, although certainly with more homo-eroticism.... Part 1 can be found here. "It's good to share, but sometimes it pays to shaft" **** “The Prime Minister will see you now, Chancellor,” the Political Assistant said, opening the door leading off from the Cabinet Room. Gordon...

  7. Alternative Prime Ministers #1: "England's Rose"

    ...on Friday, but that would have required forethought and organisation... :rolleyes: “Goodbye England's rose May you ever grow in our hearts” **** He rose, as the last chords of Thaxted reverberated through the gothic splendour, and carefully made his way down the nave, his head bowed...

  8. "The Bloody Man"

    Oliver Cromwell occupies a unique place in British history. While other great, flawed figures of our past such as Winston Churchill, the Duke of Wellington, Elizabeth I or Henry V are proudly remembered as national heroes, Cromwell- one of England's finest generals, and the person who arguably...

  9. "The Caesariad"

    (Taken from Book 1 of the Caesariad) Arms, and the men I sing, who, forc'd by fate, And jealous Vulcan's eternal hate, Fought long and hard, in terrible war, To win the glory their divine father bore. Three sons, each holding a single part, Of Caesar's godhood; his beauty, valour, and...

  10. WI an even worse Disaster at Annual, 1921?

    The Rif War is one of the more obscure conflicts of the 20th century, yet it was a pretty big deal. By its end, it had sucked in about a quarter of a million Spanish and French troops and helped launch the careers of Francisco Franco and most of the other major Nationalist figures of the Spanish...

  11. Fight and Be Right

    Fight and Be Right is finally done, so I thought I'd put i'd put it in the Timelines and Scenarios forum for posterity. The original thread, which at this point is still very much active, can be found here; the ebook itself, which has extra maps and illustrations, can be read and downloaded...

  12. Holiday musing: WI a different successor to Balfour in 1911?

    Yeah, I'm on holiday, but I've been reading about the Home Rule crisis and jotting things down as I go. So... When Andrew Bonar Law was buried at Westminster Abbey on November 5th 1923, Herbert Asquith lingered at his grave, which sits next to that of David Livingstone. “How appropriate for...

  13. WI Menelik loses the battle of Chelenqo?

    (Ok, so I know this is a little obscure. But bear with me...) During the mid to late 1880s, while the Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes was busy fighting off Ethiopian and Sudanese invasions, Ras Menelik of Shewa (later to become Emperor Menelik, the victor of Adowa) was engaged in expanding his own...

  14. What next?

    Now that I've almost finished doing my guest bit for "Decades of Darkness", I've been thinking what to do next. I've already got one Timeline on the go and I've got no intention of abandoning that, but I've had an idea for another, smaller project that I could hopefully have finished in time for...

  15. "Fight and be Right"

    Winston Churchill remains one of the most famous figures in modern history. His powerful oratory, love of controversy and charismatic charm make him one of the most revered- and admired- people of the 20th Century. Churchill has achieved the rarest of victories; he has become an archetype, a...

  16. A sneak preview of my new timeline...

    As some of you may know, I recently finished 'A Greater Britain', a long, multi-part timeline. I've been thinking for a while about what my next project should be; I orginally planned to flesh out the world of the timeline with a series of short vignettes, and another option was to finish off...

  17. "A Greater Britain"

    "A Greater Britain" is finally finished, so I felt that it deserved to be placed in the Timelines Forum. I shan't post each post seperately here; instead I'ved linked to the e-book, which had appendices, photos, maps and an index. This can be found here. The original thread, dating back to...

  18. A Greater Britain, Mk2

    Oswald Mosley is back! Or at least he will be rather soon...

  19. A not inconsiderably different Thatcher succession...

    PoD: In October 1987, an enterprising reporter from the News of the World does a little digging around the private life of the new Chief Secretary of the Treasury. A few phone calls and one obliging (if anonymous) Police protection officer later, the paper gets a nice little headline- "OH YES...

  20. A really quick and easy way to make realistic fantasy maps...

    Was playing around in photoshop this morning and I stumbled across a really easy way to make a good looking fantasy map; as far as I know it only works in photoshop, but the principle should work in other programmes assuming they have similar options. Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then I'll...
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